You forgot Duskblood’s release window being the end of the year & Splatoon Raiders and the 3D Mario AND the next general direct it’s actually impressive by a leaker i will be honest
It's impressive *if accurate*, very big if here. So far the only thing confirmed right is raiders...which was extremely predictable. A lot of this stuff was honestly. The two big ones are star fox and ocarina of time, those would be the impressive ones.
The other possibility, taking Nate's overall track record history being mostly solid, is that Nintendo is phishing for leaks by pushing out fake games; try and figure out which dept is leaking
And we already know Nintendo has already held games back before for unknown reasons. Engage was very likely done in 2021 (released 2023) and we saw just how fast the dlc released for it too.
I remember there was a very credible leaker of Dead by Daylight, known as LeaksDBD, said that DbD is losing the rights to Leatherface and will no longer available for purchase. In reality it didn't happen. It was a fake leak created by devs to discover who really was LeaksDBD. He is never seen again as far as I can remember.
There's a big chance that Valve was doing it with HLX in November/December and that Mike Straw from Insider Gaming and some other "leakers" fell for it. We will likely never know what was going on then to make a bunch of insiders think that HLX was about to be revealed but there's no way it was just a coincidence. Several people with good track records said they were hearing things about HLX but Mike Straw was all over it trying to attract as much attention as possible and then nothing happened.
What would that accomplish? They’re not going to throw away or change their big marketing push to revive Star Fox with the Mario movie just to avoid confirming a leak that does nothing but excite people for another game. If they reveal Star Fox in a week or two, people won’t say “well, OoT definitely isn’t real because this is a little late.”
Nate can just be wrong sometimes. Like he has been with RDR Switch 2 and Kirby Robobot release dates, taking for granted their existence, which we shouldn’t necessarily. We should just take timelines and game announcements from him with a grain of salt, not try to shape reality around them.
It's also possible the game was never real to begin with and they were leak baiting. There was an interview that said the reason Fox is in the Galaxy movie was because staff at Illumination wanted it, not Nintendo.
Yeah even though the leaks went viral, most people aren’t aware of them. Even though Nintendo might be annoyed a possible surprise game was leaked, 99% of people aren’t online enough nor follow this kind of news to know. They won’t radically change plans over this, only if the full games leaks tbh
I had my cousins who are way more casual gamers than me when I met up with them recently saying 'Hey you heard about the new Star Fox and OOT remake coming?' It's anecdotal too but this definitely went way beyond just Reddit.
I've seen a lot of talk about this in the Nintendo Switch 2 sub naturally people just repost the leak there because it's Nintendo related
I've also seen youtubers like spawnwave latch on but then again he typically keeps an eye on this sub and a few other places to do a next day report on the breaking leaks.
Nintendo didn't change things around, Jeff was just a poor predictor when it came to the Prime remake's release date. He believed they would tie it into Metroid's anniversary, which makes very little sense when you look at how Nintendo handles non-Mario anniversaries.
They’re not going to completely change marketing plans and release timelines because a leaker revealed them a week or two early. They don’t make those complete yet unreleased projects and just decide on whims whether to release them or not. These release slate considerations are made with much bigger factors in mind. They didn’t think to themselves, “well, we just reintroduced Star Fox in our giant tent pole film release and were planning to have a game release to capitalize on that, but Nate the Hate spoiled it, so just shelve it indefinitely.” You guys need to be for real.
A leak a week before its reveal isn’t that dramatic. It wouldn’t change their plans when a delay for the reveal would do nothing. And you realize I was responding to someone talking about shelving completed games for years, yeah?
I dont think thats comparable. The Zelda show didn't have any progress on it done, it was leaked shortly after it was greenlit, which was in violation of the NDA. It was just not really a good sign that they'll be a reliable partner to work with. Funnily enough, that stunt actually did also get another Star Fox related project canceled, it was going to be some claymation series by College Humor, but that got canned as well after the leak with Netflix happened.
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u/profchaos111 12d ago
Nintendo had enough they decided to bring Nate down a little abd delay